Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-31
EDUCATIONAL.
The Subject % a College Education Dis
cussed in Sensible and Prac-
tipaI WAY
The Tnductive Method and It's Serio Us
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on Physics
Teaching.
COLLEGE EXPENSES.

Tie COuqreqdtf0RdItSt in an editor
ial in a recent issue, considers a mat
ter that is to-day more than ever at
tracing the attention of those inter
ested in college education. The sub
ject of college expenses is one that has
been variouSlv discussed and widely
commented upon but rarely in such
clear. candld. and cheering manner
az in the article mentioned.
Bv presenting to his pupils the able
considerations of this article, the
teacher in the secondary school can
encourage the desire for a higher ed
ucation in those boys whose straitened
circumstances might seem to denV
this great privilege. We give few
extracts:
THE first question which arises in
regard to college expenses is this:
What are they legitImately? 1t is
clear at once that the cost of suitable
rooms. fuel, and lights. clothing, text
books, etc, Is inevitable. 1t
is the cost of membership in college
organizations, of subscription to the
various college publications, of help
ing to support boating, baseball, foot
ball, tennis, etc, and especially of in
diligence in more or less ENJOYABLE but
unnecessary expenditures of minor
sorts, which causes e principal diff
ferences in the expenses of students.
1t Is a grave error to assume that
no expenses in college are necessary
but those essential to life and study.
Much of the best influence of every
college is eXerted outside OF its lecture
rooms. Much of the highest and most
lasting value of It's course is due to
the mutual relations and intercourse
of the students. The interest III ath-
letics, societies. etc. may become eX-
travagant now and then, but this is a
much less evil than the absence OF such
an interest would be. There is no
student who does not need,-we say
it deliberately,-tO associate with his
or her fellOw-students regularly and
SympathetIcaIly in some of the many
departments OF college life outside of
mere study. To graduate with a col
lege diploma, even though one take
the valedictory itself, without having
entered into the true spirit of college
life by bearing an active part I'D It's
manifold and stimulating experiences
during the four years, Is to have failed
in a very large degree of securing the
best results of the course. Each stu
oenJ, therefore, must ScJJIe IIe qucS-
ton for himself, how far it is right for
him to spend money for other objects
than bare necessities. Neither he nor
the college authorities nor his friends
should think it wrong for him to allow
himself some freedom.
This is the great fact to be remem-
bered, that no young man or woman,
however poor, need feel unable in
these days to secure a college education
BY teaching, or other honest and hon
orable labor, many are able to earn
a considerable yearly sum. Moreover,
there are now so many scholarships
in most colleges that deserving and
capable young people usually can Sc
cure pecuniary aid from these sources.
In many institutions, also, certain Of
ficialS are intrusted with funds which
they are expected to use privately,
where aid can be rendered wisely, in
the help of needy students"